About This Item

  • TitleGoodsell Memorial Methodist Church
  • Call NumberCHUR_0490
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryRendering (drawing) of facade of Goodsell Memorial Methodist Church, McKinley Avenue and Sheridan Avenue, with lamp on post and picket fence on both sides of doorway. Over doorway: "Goodsell M. E. Church." Caption: "The first chapel of Goodsell Memorial Methodist Church, McKinley and Sheridan Aves., sas it looked in 1904 with its muddy street and gas lamps. It is still being used as a parish house and chapel, but enlarged and modernized. The picket fence was used to protect the building against wandering goats."
  • Date1938
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genredrawings (visual works)gelatin silver printsphotographic printsrenderings (drawings)
  • NoteGrease pencil cropping marks. On verso: date inscribed: Aug. 13/38. Portion of image (4 x 2 inches appr.) in lower left missing. Title from caption on verso.
  • SubjectGoodsell Memorial Methodist Church ; Methodist church buildings [lctgm]
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
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  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)East New York (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.